Marquise McBride, 22, was arrested June 24 and charged with robbery with a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm after Jose Neftali Laines, 31, alleged that McBride robbed him June 4 at 9:15 p.m. as he was walking in the Boost Mobile Plaza at 6270 Forest Hill Boulevard.

According to a police report written by Detective Engel Perez, Laines said when he left the Kwik Stop store on the west end of the plaza, he saw a group of people at the east end of the building. Within that group was McBride, who Laines would later identify in a photo line-up as his attacker. As Laines continued to walk past the group of people, a person punched him in the face. Laines said the person reached into his pocket and took out his wallet. Laines said the person removed about $40 in cash from his wallet and then returned it to him, the police report said. Laines said the man then pointed a gun at him and told him to leave. Laines said the man told him that if he didn’t leave, he would kill him, the police report said. Laines ran home and reported the robbery to police.

Laines described the thief as a black man with a thin build who is 5 feet 7 inches tall. Laines also said the man was wearing a white shirt, red hat, pants and had tattoo sleeves on his arms. Laines told authorities that he knew the thief because he has seen him many times before in the plaza.

Laines was taken to the Wellington Hospital to treat swelling in his right eye.

Perez said he was able to confirm McBride as Laines’s attacker after he watched a surveillance video from Nola’s Pizza restaurant that shows him in the footage. McBride fits the description of the attacker Laines gave detectives. The video doesn’t show the actual robbery happening, the police report said. The store manager identified the man in the footage as McBride. The store manager obtained McBride’s full name after she looked him up in the Palm Beach Sheriff Office’s Booking Blotter, the police report said.

Perez also looked up McBride in the Palm Beach Sheriff Office’s system and his physical appearance was an identical match to the suspect in the video, the police report said.